... . intelligence agencies while he was in Japan as a future 'false defector' sent into the Soviet Union either to feed the Soviets deceptive information or to carry out some yet unknown task behind the Iron Curtain. As we know now, the Soviets never trusted Oswald; the MVD (the Soviet version of the FBI) kept him under continual surveillance, both in Moscow and Minsk. If Oswald were a 'controlled defector', perhaps he did secretly go to either Iwakuni or Tokyo (or Miami Beach for that matter) and was there introduced to a Russian tutor as part of a planned defection. Since Legend is such a hopeless muddle, it is impossible to trust it as ...

... , middle-class American, Guffey's friend Dion was a working-class multiple drug user, living a chaotic, poverty-stricken life on the margins of American society. Where Harlan Girard talked of voices in his head, Guffey's informant talked of invisible midgets, rooms that altered size, views from his window which changed, drones that surveilled him and gang-stalking by teams of military personnel. Where my information sources on mind control in 1989 consisted of fragments in libraries, journals and books, and the occasional account from other subjects of these experiments, Guffey had the Internet and began using it to make sense of his friend's tales; and fairly quickly discovered that, ...

... . Social science as a profession developed as an academic discipline largely through the funding of corporations that recognised its value for training management cadre sensitive to population control issues. Parallel to eugenics, which essentially saw control in terms of depopulation, intensive research was devoted to manipulating indigenous social structures in the same way marketing was elaborated as a system of surveillance and intervention to control the population of industrialised societies. This was fostered by the process of professionalisation, especially in medicine and journalism. The outgrowth of professionalising healthcare and information flows drew directly on the experience of missionaries: the gospel and medical mission both had ostensibly civilian 'developmental' agendas. However they were actually techniques for social reengineering. ...

... party memory. The pursuit of the covert state operations against Labour governments, the Labour Party and wider left seemed politically relevant. My interest in MI5 was in MI5 qua enemy of the left. But as the wider left disintegrated in the UK after the fall of the Soviet bloc, and the British secret state more or less gave up surveilling, penetrating and manipulating it, the political point of trying to find out what the spooks were doing diminished. In 1986 when Lobster 11 appeared, detailing some of the anti-Labour activities of the 1970s, many of the people involved were still alive, as were the consequences of those operations. Now such research is just history ...

... rumours, thus far I have avoided trying to make sense of the Kincora scandal's place in the Elm House-Savile-paedos-in-high-places thicket. However one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined 'MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation', with this: 'MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys' home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath'.1 He continued: 'The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of its housemasters, William McGrath, was the leader of paramilitary group Tara ...

... the American war machine has been preparing for forty years to neutralize street antiwar protest. ' (p . 180) The deep state watched the anti-war protests of the 1960s and resolved 'never again'. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist 'fusion centres' of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is 'all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged', as the deep state grows so does the repressed, the unsayable. Almost nothing of substance is now said by American ...

... Labour Party.1 This MI5 theory led the anti-communist right to counter-organise and the author gives us a pretty detailed account of this in 1974-6 : the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier's ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds in British politics since the 1920s. See Kevin Quinlan's The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s, reviewed at <http://www.lobster- ...

... speaking when his Senate committee's report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel Schorr in the Village Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church's committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and obstructed by the Ford administration; this was a committee that included such 'radicals' as Barry Goldwater, Richard Schweiker, John Tower, and Howard Baker. At the time Church said: ...

... . Nonetheless, MI5 maintain that they never had any idea that he was going to become a suicide bomber. This is a fine example of doublethink because in excusing themselves for failing to stop Siddique Khan before 7/7 they are also admitting that they have no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did have on Khan before 7/7 , it is only if you believe that he was a suicide bomber that any of it looks convincing. Khan's visits to Pakistan ...

... existing knowledge and trust – such as the public revelation of information that was formerly concealed, and which by its uncovering threatens to harm the relationship between groups, notably state and society. An example of the latter can be found in the public disclosures of WikiLeaks and, most recently, Edward Snowden's divulgences about the US National Security Agency's mass surveillance programmes. Coincidences such as these are regularly seen by conspiracy theorists as irrefutable evidence of a malign plot. ' (emphasis added) This is even less clear than her first conclusion. Coincidences? What is she talking about? Which coincidences are involved in the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden? And is she trying to deny that Wikileaks ...